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	<title>Vanguard News &#187; Environment</title>
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		<title>FCT dump sites worrisome</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABUJA-The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, a few years ago is not a place to easily sight refuse dumps by the road side due to its nature as a preferred destination for meetings]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria to establish climate change insurance scheme for farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was stated in a communiqué issued the end of a two day conference on climate based micro-insurance: providing protection for Nigerian farmers, said despite the fact that over 90% of Nigeria’s agriculture is dependent on rain-fed systems.]]></description>
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		<title>UN agency says combating desertification is a must</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABUJA - Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Mr. Luc Gnacadja, said it is imperative for all nations in the world to intensify efforts in combating desertification.]]></description>
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		<title>Fashola tasks children on climate change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lagos State Government Last week marked the 3rd Anniversary of Climate Change Clubs in state schools in its efforts to educate school children on issues of climate change and groom them to become environmental ambassadors who will spread the message of mitigation and adaptive measures of curbing the menace of global warming to the larger society.]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria to develop low carbon strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Government of Nigeria will pursue a low carbon development strategy to achieve Vision 2020 targets. This hint was dropped by the Minister of Environment, Mr John Odey in a message to the National Workshop on Developing a Low Carbon Industrial Strategy for Nigeria. The Minister stated Nigeria’s commitment to develop a low carbon industrial strategy that creates growth, employment and reduce emission of greenhouse gases.]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos targets 733 million of water per day by 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), has unveiled its plan to meet the 733 million gallons per day (GPD) water needs for the projected 29 million population in Lagos in 2020.]]></description>
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		<title>Okomu stakeholders petition Oshiomhole over deforestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protection for Okomu National Park (PONPE), a coalition of stakeholder organisations and individuals and Local Advisory Committee for Okomu National Park (LAC_Okomu) have sent a petition to the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole urging him to urgently look into what they called ‘’illegal logging, carting away of logs and bodily attacks on staff of the National Park situated at Arakhuan_Udo in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, with the view to bringing the perpetrators to book”]]></description>
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		<title>Climate Change: Banire raises alarm as Japan count cost of quake, tsunami</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/climate-change-banire-raises-alarm-as-japan-count-cost-of-quake-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lagos Commissioner for the Environment in Lagos State, Dr. Adeyemi Banire has raised alarm over the devastating effects of Climate Change on Nigeria.]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic church campaigns for safe environment</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/catholic-church-campaigns-for-safe-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Catholic Church in Nigeria will on Sunday in Benin flagged-off the 2011 Lenten Campaign with the theme, “Sustaining Our Environment for Integral Human Development”.]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos acquires  tree transplanting equipment</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/lagos-acquires-tree-transplanting-equipment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its determination to sustain the greener Lagos initiative, an ongoing project of the Babatunde Fashola administration aimed at mitigating the effect of climate change, Lagos State Government has procured equipment to ensure healthy environment for economic growth and living.]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting environment with gnetum africanum</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/protecting-environment-with-gnetum-africanum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Non Governmental Organization, Rural Infrastructure Services for Under-Served population, RISE-UP, has advocated the planting of Gnetum Africanum otherwise known as ‘Okazi’, ‘Afang’ or ‘Eru’ in our environment in order to protect.]]></description>
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		<title>HOS lists sustainability to ensure success of MDGs</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/hos-lists-sustainability-to-ensure-success-of-mdgs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Head of service, Prof Oladapo Afolabi, has identified positive development of the environment as the key to acheiving the 7th goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Woos investors in wastewater management</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/woos-investors-in-wastewater-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/woos-investors-in-wastewater-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lagos State Government will tomorrow hold its first wastewater investment forum aimed at elevating the essential sector in structure, stature and sophistication. The one-day forum has “Wastewater Sectoral Policy, Unveiling the Investment Potentials’ as its theme]]></description>
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		<title>Living Africa Environment Summit holds in Abuja</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/living-africa-environment-summit-holds-in-abuja/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans have been concluded for International Living Africa Environmental Summit slated for this week in Abuja. The two-day gathering of environment stakeholders across the country and outside Nigeria, has its theme as “Environmental Awareness, Healthy Living, Water Resources Longevity and Emerging Technology”]]></description>
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		<title>Ago residents carpet Fashola as early rain drops</title>
		<link>http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/ago-residents-carpet-fashola-as-early-rain-drops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>olabode</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RESIDENTS of Ago in Okota/Isolo local government have become apprehensive of their fate as the rains return earlier than expected, dashing hopes and prayers that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, will remember them in 2011 as the area will be worse hit in this new rainy season]]></description>
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